In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and host Chris Dall discuss the exponential growth of cases in the US and elsewhere, more promising news regarding vaccines and the obstacles that remain, the impact of surging cases on healthcare workers, and an opportunity to help out with the Frontline Families Fund. Here is a direct audio link, with Dr. O starting at 6:23.
16% of those in a recent survey say they would not opt to receive an approved vaccine, another 15% are not sure.
Over the last decade, countries have raced each other to the bottom cutting tax rates for the largest corporations as government deficits have soared. A minimum federal tax rate is needed.
President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. But the fate of Biden’s plan rests largely on whether or not Democrats take control of the Senate. Here is a direct video link.
For some time, I’ve described the climate and pollution challenges at hand as our generation’s war effort. Seth Klein comes to a similar conclusion in his new book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. He joined CBC’s The Current last week to discuss. Worth a listen; here’s a direct audio link.
There is a “new climate denialism” that is impeding efforts to fight the environmental crisis, according to a public policy expert who argues Canada must mobilize like it did for the Second World War.
“The new climate denialism is when our leaders say that they get the climate crisis, but then they don’t practise politics that aligns with what the science says we have to do,” said Seth Klein, the former B.C. director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency.
“That is really the Phoney War period in which we currently live,” he told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
